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After further review (as football referees like to say), the TV rating for Super Bowl LIII actually didn’t fall to its lowest point in a decade, according to the newest figures from CBS.
The company now puts Sunday’s total audience at 112.7 million viewers, not the 100.7 million tally circulated the day after the…

The game was a low-scoring snooze, and Maroon 5’s half-time show exuded strongly bleached blandness, leaving the ads our last best hope to avoid total Super Bowl viewing disaster. Here are the ads that rose to the occasion, and those that did not:
THE GOOD:Andy Warhol Wins
Big year for Andy Warhol who was paid…

With eight minutes to go in Super Bowl LIII’s fourth quarter, New England Patriots fans at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium started a “Brady, Brady” chant.
The veteran quarterback answered their prayers, as Greatest-of-all-Time Tom Brady began to surgically carve up the Los Angeles Rams secondary, loosening up what had…

The second-lowest-scoring first half in Super Bowl history has been the story of Super Bowl LIII so far, as two wily elder statesmen of defense – New England’s Bill Belichick and Los Angeles’s Wade Phillips – have managed to impose their will on the game. The result was a narrow 3-0 lead for the New England Patriots…

Gladys Knight promised to “unite and represent our country” with her rendition of the national anthem at the Super Bowl. Consider it mission accomplished.
The 74-year-old, Grammy-winning singer delivered a powerful, emotional and respectful version of the Star Spangled Banner to her hometown in the prelude to Super Bow…

Original IP in the animation space can be daunting, but Paramount has pulled it off before with the Oscar-winning hit Rango. Wonder Park, from Nickelodeon Movies, puts you in the front seat of the roller coaster car and other thrilling rides as we experience them via the imagination of a wildly creative girl named…

President Donald Trump says he would steer youngest son Barron away from playing football, calling it a “dangerous sport” but a “great product.”
"I just don't like the reports I see coming out having to do with football. It's a dangerous sport,” Trump said in the traditional POTUS Super Bowl Sunday sit-down with the…

(UPDATED with Colin Kaepernick response) The biggest TV event of the year is losing one of Hollywood’s most high-profile directors as a viewer.
Ava DuVernay tweeted that she will not be “a spectator, viewer or supporter” of Super Bowl LIII due to what she called the NFL’s “racist treatment” of former San Francisco…

Yeah yeah, we know: You can just turn on the TV to watch the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots battle for NFL supremacy on Sunday. If that’s your plan, Super Bowl LIII will be on CBS. That’s Channel 2 in LA and NYC, Channel 4 in the Greater Boston area. Cable or satellite subscribers can check their local…

Amazon has gone back to the long-form, star-studded well for the Super Bowl, incorporating Harrison Ford, Forest Whitaker and Broad City duo Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson into a 90-second spot promoting Alexa.
The spot, which was released today online and will air on Sunday’s Super Bowl LIII, pivots on the gimmick of…

The Chiefs had a loud crowd behind them at their Arrowhead Stadium home and the best young quarterback in the game. They just didn’t have Tom Brady.
The wild and woolly AFC championship boiled down to this: quarterback Brady of the New England Patriots had the ball first in overtime. If you’re his opponent, that’s…

Despite calls for an artist boycott and several acts reportedly shying away, Super Bowl LIII has finally nailed down performers for its halftime show.
As rumored, rockers Maroon 5 will be joined by rapper Travis Scott and performer/producer Big Boi as the entertainment for the big game, set for Sunday, Feb. 3 in…